Example sentences of "that [noun] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith became a Carnegie trustee , and it was thanks to the association between the two men that Keighley became the first town in England to acquire a new Carnegie free library . |
| 2 | The crucial difference is that Marx emphasised the first element , while Weber emphasised the second . |
| 3 | It was twenty-five minutes after Morse had left the scene that Lewis discovered the first , fat clue : a sheet of yellow A4 paper on which the details of the Historic Cities of England Tour had been originally itemised ; and on which the time of the final item that day had been crossed through boldly in blue Biro , with the entry now reading : |
| 4 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 5 | It is a matter of history that Austin became the first Englishman to regularly employ the new-fangled back crawl , which all swimmers use today but was then regarded as something of an eccentricity . |
| 6 | In England too , industrialization meant that peasants became the first working class and were alienated from the earth and its fruits . |
| 7 | So it was that Huddersfield became the first club to win the Cup with a penalty . |